Dolfan in NYC Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Cena's back, yay AJ turned. And of course the 6 best workers on the roster had a great match. Back to basketball... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 That was the best promo Seth Rollins has cut ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 We're going to get some great trios matches for like months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Someday AJ will be booked in a feud he can win. That day is not today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 I was mostly watching the Sharks/Pens game. What a heartbraking loss. I'm still saying Sharks in 7. Really glad to see the split between the Club minus Bullets was just a ruse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 The opening was like a film strip explaining new IP to the masses. The New Day were Mr. DNA and Steph/Shane were John Hammond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Dana Brooke's ringgear is terrible, btw. (As is her wrestling) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 I prefer AJ as a heel, but AJ was hugely over. Feel like Vince is burning money blowing off everything they set up with Roman-AJ just to feed the Club to Cena. As surprises go, I woulda preferred to see Samoa Joe run out to choke Cena out. didn't actually watch the show except for a bit of AJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 1 minute ago, Overly Critical Man said: Dana Brooke's ringgear is terrible, btw. (As is her wrestling) When Emma got injured, Dana should have been sent back to nxt and her main roster debut retconned out of existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 6 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: When Emma got injured, Dana should have been sent back to nxt and her main roster debut retconned out of existence. The problem is the Women's division is short on heels outside Charlotte. Dana has to stay by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: When Emma got injured, Dana should have been sent back to nxt and her main roster debut retconned out of existence. Pretty much. The finish to that match was terrible. It took her longer to hit her finisher than it takes Apollo Crews to hit his. Speaking of Crews, Big Show made him look like he was a 5 feet tall runt. The camera angle did him no favors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bink_winkleman Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Cena/AJ was a wonderful mark out moment for me. It was kind of silly to have the most over guy on the roster turn, though. Enjoyable show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Moose Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Del Rio reminded me of Mitt Romney in the backstage segment. This episode was mostly a joyless slog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 So they're building to a Charlotte vs Stephanie match, right? I mean, there's no way Stephanie would cut down a wrestler in a promo and never get her comeuppance, right? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Ziggler blatantly ripping off Jericho's promo was really fucking gross. I've heard other stand up guys say he isn't good at stand up, so he steals material and fucks that up too. Never thought I'd see someone on Raw steal from such a popular promo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Just now, Craig H said: Ziggler blatantly ripping off Jericho's promo was really fucking gross. I've heard other stand up guys say he isn't good at stand up, so he steals material and fucks that up too. Never thought I'd see someone on Raw steal from such a popular promo. I'm glad I'm not the only person that thought that. I thought it was going to lead to Jericho running in and kicking the shit out of Dolph, but instead it led to nothing. Then Dolph went and ripped off Rick Steiner. I thought maybe Dolph's new gimmick is he's doing the Charlie Haas "parody other wrestlers" thing, but that'd require him to be interesting or charismatic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 I kept waiting for him to give credit to Jericho...and yet, nothing. I'm hoping it was done as a rib on Jericho, but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Dolph did give credit to Jericho. That's how he went into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Can't wait to see Dolph's interpretation of Dusty's "Hard times" promo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zheroen Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 23 minutes ago, Burgundy LaRue said: The problem is the Women's division is short on heels outside Charlotte. Dana has to stay by default. Let's examine this, shall we? Even with Emma's injury, for the heels we have Charlotte, Naomi, Tamina, Alicia Fox, Summer Rae, and Rosa Mendes. You could even throw in Lana and Maryse, bringing us to a total of 8 without Dana Brooke. The faces have Sasha, Becky Lynch, Paige, and Natalya. Let's go ahead and say Nikki Bella makes a miraculous recovery, and we bring that number to 5 faces. 8 vs. 5. Not exactly sure how one looks at those numbers and thinks "By default, I need to add another to the side that has 8 to address this imbalance!", but there you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 5 minutes ago, Charlie M. said: Dolph did give credit to Jericho. That's how he went into it. Did he? I'll admit, I probably tuned out Ziggler until I heard him mention Dean Malenko and then go into the bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 The AJ-Cena stuff ruled. Everything else was filler or just bullshit - like Steph cutting Charlotte's lady balls off. http://jayreviewsthings.blogspot.com/2016/05/raw-5-30-16-memorial-day-show.html Screens - http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/god35v9tl07uf4hz29lvvs3bds4reidv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 14 minutes ago, Craig H said: Ziggler blatantly ripping off Jericho's promo was really fucking gross. I've heard other stand up guys say he isn't good at stand up, so he steals material and fucks that up too. Never thought I'd see someone on Raw steal from such a popular promo. Dolph learned from Denis Leary. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Just now, Craig H said: Did he? I'll admit, I probably tuned out Ziggler until I heard him mention Dean Malenko and then go into the bit. Yeah he mentioned Malenko then mentioned Jericho saying he had 1,004 holds and you could see the promo on the WWE Network. I thought this whole thing was stupid up until the payoff because it turned out Dolph was just pretending to be a stupid babyface who cares about technical wrestling over beating someone up. A rare time where a WWE babyface actually outsmarted someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Tamina is hurt. Naomi is just coming back from injury, but will be gone to do a movie. Alicia is on a milk carton. Rosa is on maternity leave. Maryse has shown no inclination toward wrestling again. Lana is still training and not wrestling on TV right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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